The Olympic Aquatics Centre will be a flagship building for the London 2012 Olympic bid. It will be in the planned Olympic Park in East London, and one of the London Development Authority’s legacy facilities for the community after the Olympics.
Sebastian Coe, chairman of London 2012, continued: “We look forward to working with … the designers … to help bring the Olympic Games and Paralympic Games to London in 2012. The Aquatics Centre will leave a lasting legacy for the community and will be in use before the start of the Games. This is what the Olympics is all about – bringing better sports facilities to the country and encouraging everyone to take part in sport.”
FaulknerBrowns, in partnership with Ken Shuttleworth’s London-based design practice MAKE, is the only UK-based specialist sports architect among the international field.
FaulknerBrowns’ pools include the Manchester Aquatics Centre, venue for swimming, diving and water polo at the 2002 Commonwealth Games, and Sheffield’s Ponds Forge, used for the 1991 World Student Games and again for this year for the Olympic trials.
The preferred design team will be selected by the end of January 2005.
